Wahhaj also urges the violent overthrow of the “filthy” U.S. government and the establishment of Islamic law.

The imam testified as a character witness for convicted WTC terrorist mastermind Omar Abdel-Rahman, known as the “blind sheik.”

“CAIR is showing its true colors by aligning with such a notorious anti-American radical,” said Gary Cass of DefendChristians.Org. “We’re shocked that the Hilton Hotel will allow such an event on their property.”

Cass said his group is inviting “fellow patriots” to gather at 4 p.m. Saturday in front of the Anaheim hotel to “expose the public to Hilton’s association with CAIR and Siraj Wahhaj.”

“Hilton Hotels must hear from thousands of patriots,” said Cass. “Muslims have successfully threatened and pressured other hotels to cancel conferences that tell the truth about Islam. Its time we tell Hilton to stop doing business with CAIR or we will stop doing business with Hilton.”

As WND reported last week, a Nashville hotel canceled its contract to host a conference on radical Islam after management said it had received “veiled threats that there were going to be protests that could easily erupt into violence.” The Preserving Freedom Conference, scheduled for Nov. 11, will now take place at a megachurch in a Nashville suburb, Cornerstone Church.

CAIR has sued the co-author of a WND Books expose, “Muslim Mafia,” which uses primary source material to document CAIR’s founding as a front for the Muslim Brotherhood, the parent of terrorist groups such as al-Qaida and Hamas.

Wahhaj is one of many Muslim leaders affiliated with CAIR who have been named or prosecuted in U.S. terrorism-related investigations.

An imam at Masjid Al-Taqwa in Brooklyn, Wahhaj is on record urging a violent overthrow of the “filthy” U.S. government assisted by jihad warriors armed with Uzis.

In a videotaped May 8, 1992, sermon obtained by the authors of “Muslim Mafia” titled “Stand Up for Justice,” Wahhaj makes it clear that, contrary to CAIR’s media guide, he believes jihad means “holy war,” not merely a “struggle to better oneself.”

“Believe me, brothers and sisters, Muslims in America are the most strategic Muslims on Earth,” Wahhaj says in the 1992 sermon, arguing the government can’t drop bombs on warring Muslims in the U.S. without causing collateral damage.

The American government’s “worst nightmare is one day that the Muslims wake these people up in South Central Los Angeles and other inner-city areas,” he says in the video.

Wahhaj exhorts the faithful to go into the “hood and the prisons and convert disenfranchised minorities, and then arm them and train them to carry out an Uzi jihad in the inner cities.”

“We don’t need to arm the people with nine-millimeters and Uzis,” he says. “You need to arm them with righteousness first. And then once you arm them with righteousness first, then you can arm them [with Uzis and other weapons].”

CAIR tells the public in its media guide, however, “There is a common misperception among Westerners that the Quran teaches violence.”

Wahhaj makes it clear, nevertheless, he sees Islam as a uniquely militant religion.

“We don’t have a turn-the-other-cheek philosophy” like the Christians, he says. “Allah has given us permission to fight them” so that “the word of Allah can be uppermost.”

“If we were united and strong, we’d elect our own emir and give allegiance to him,” Wahhaj was quoted as saying. “[T]ake my word, if 6 to 8 million Muslims unite in America, the country will come to us.”

Those who struggle for Allah, it doesn’t matter what kind of weapons, I’m telling you it doesn’t matter! You don’t need nuclear weapons or even guns! If you have faith in Allah and a knife! If Allah wants you to win, you will win! Because Allah is the only one who fights. And when his hand is over your hand. whoever is at war against my friends, I declare war on them.

Citing Emerson, “Muslim Media” notes Wahhaj once likened the U.S. to a trash bin and prayed it would “crumble” and be replaced by Islam.